Startup Boot Error - Loading Screen Stalls

hi guys,
atm i am on my windows laptop because my mac ibook G4 has a problem with the startup sequence or somthing. I power up my PC and it makes chime sounds then goes to the gear that spins in circles with the apple emblem (loading screen) and makes beeping sounds every few seconds. I can boot it with Mac OSX CD and get into disk utility and did a disk utility repair on my hardrive and it fixed 1 problem with my storage folder which is where i store stuff (not where the main osx stuff is stored.) I restart it it does the same thing.. just sits at the spinning gear loading screen and makes beeps every few seconds.. I carn't even start it in safe mode by holding shift down soon as I hear the chimes... I even did the reset power management **** to no avail.. ITS REALLY FRUSTRATING!!!! If nothing can be done will a format and fresh install fix this problem?! <pulls hair out> thats the last measure I want.. A format -.-.
Thanks,
Pico

Hi PicoWico,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
As John said, you need to be a little bit more specific. You may want to look at...
Knowledge Base Document #106214 on Troubleshooting Startup Issues
Knowledge Base Document #58442 on Power On Self-Test Beep Definition
Jon
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